Santa Fe, NMUSAFriday, April 29, 2011–Saturday, July 2, 2011

Opening Reception: Friday, April 29th, 5-7pm
The Gerald
Peters Gallery
is pleased
to
announce
the
opening
of
the
exhibit,
Antipodes:
Botswana
and
Hawaii,
an
exhibition
of
painting
by
Mike
Glier
with
an
opening
reception
on
Friday,
April
29,
2011,
5-­‐7
p.m.

Artist
Mike
Glier
has
been
wondering
what’s
beneath
his
feet
–
way
beneath
his
feet,
through
the
center
of
the
earth
to
the
other
side
of
the
globe.
He
decided
to
find
out
by
mounting
a
painting
expedition
to
Botswana
and
Hawaii,
two
landscapes
located
on
opposite
points
of
the
earth.
Nxai
Pan,
Botswana
is
a
featureless,
white,
salt
pan
fringed
by
arid
grassland.
On
the
other
side
of
the
earth,
its
“antipode”,
on
the
big
island
of
Hawaii
is
Kilauea,
a
high
altitude
rainforest
that
is
cool,
dense
and
immensely
green.
Both
Nxai
Pan
and
Kilauea
are
represented
in
the
exhibit
as
well
as
Tuli
Block
and
Okavango
Delta
in
Botswana,
and
the
Puna
Coast
in
Hawaii.

“In
an
age
when
global
thinking
is
essential
to
solve
energy,
economic,
ecological
and
social
problems,”
said
Glier,
“it’s
important
to
create
links
that
stick
in
the
brain
–
links
which
challenge
distance
and
difference
and
encourage
connection.
I’m
choosing
geometry,
the
common
abstraction
of
space,
to
hitch
unlike
places.”

Antipodes
is
the
second
solo
exhibition
for
Glier
at
the
Gerald
Peters
Gallery,
following
Along
A
Long
Line,
a
collection
of
works
made
while
traveling
from
the
Arctic
to
the
equator
along
a
line
of
longitude.
This
new
exhibit
will
be
accompanied
by
a
blog,
also
titled
Antipodes
(www.antipodes.us),
which
will
feature
stories,
photographs
and
more
paintings
by
the
artist.
In
an
adjacent
gallery,
Gerald
Peters
will
also
present
a
suite
of
landscape
paintings
of
the
Santa
Fe
region
that
Glier
created
in
the
spring
of
2010.

Born
in
Kentucky,
Mike
Glier
received
an
MA
from
Hunter
College.
In
1989,
he
was
the
New
England
recipient
of
Awards
in
the
Visual
Arts
9,
and
in
1996,
he
was
awarded
a
Guggenheim
Fellowship
in
painting.
The
Albright
Knox
Museum,
Goldman
Sachs,
Chase
Bank,
The
Minneapolis
Institute
of
Arts,
the
Museum
of
Modern
Art,
the
Norton
Gallery
of
Art
and
the
San
Diego
Museum
of
Art
are
among
the
institutions
where
his
work
is
represented.